Spring 10
What's Your Story? Citizen Journalism 101
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Complete Overhaul Bike Repair at Sibley Bike Depot - April 2010
This class will build upon the skills taught in the Basic Bike Maintenance class and expand through overhauling an entire bicycle. Participants will take apart, clean, and repack all bearing systems, including hubs, headsets, and bottom brackets. In addition, the will install new cables and housing on brakes and derailleurs as needed, and lubricate/adjust all shifting systems. In full, folks attending this class will learn how to perform a complete tune-up/overhaul of a bicycle. Participants will work with the same bike through the class, in order to see the complexities and intricacies of one specific bicycle. Note: All class participants will fix up SHOP BIKES during this class! Bikes fixed up will go into one of Sibley's many community programs designed to promote biking!
Class times/dates:
Thursday evenings, 6:30-9pm
May 6-27, 4 consecutive Thursday evenings
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Discussion & Workshop: Being a Female DJ
ALL YOU MUSIC LOVERS OUT THERE - come mix&mash&moveyourfeet! DJ Simone ~Your Steppa DuJour is coming to Macalester College to help you find your inner DJ!
WHEN: April 3rd
WHERE: Macalester College, Women's & Gender Resource Center. 1600 Grand Ave, St Paul 55105
13:00-14:00
The Minneapolis DJ Simone ~Your Steppa DuJour is coming to Macalester College to hold a talk and host a discussion about being a *Female* DJ, what it means to her and how you can get started.
14:00-18:00
After the talk and discussion, Simone will demonstrate the basics of DJing, and you can sign up for a 30min to experiment with the turntables and explore your inner DJ. Simone will be there to instruct and assist you. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
We will have two turn tables and a.... mixer! plus records... feel free to bring your own if you have any favorite vinyls you'd like to practise with!
Simone Says: "Females are Definitely Encouraged to Sign-up! :)"
If you cannot come to the talk&discussion, feel free to drop in anytime between 2-6PM!
Snacks will be provided! [yay!]
...and don't forget to go to the dance at 10PM, where Simone and DJ Frankie Teardrop will throw an ecclectic mash-up bash for all of you!
***sponsored by FIA*STARSA & Macalester DJ Club***
for questions, contact Hanna Backman 6512700245 or Simone Speers 7634382390
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Unsettling Ourselves: A Discussion Group (in St. Paul!) Facilitated by Unsettling Minnesota
Join Unsettling Minnesota for Unsettling Ourselves: A Discussion Group
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Basic Bike Maintenance at Sibley Bike Depot (May) REGISTRATION CLOSED
Learn the basics of fixing and maintaining your bicycle! Come learn bike repair skills with the knowledgeable staff and volunteers at Sibley Bike Depot, your friendly community bike shop in St. Paul.
May 16-June 6, four consecutive Sunday afternoons 4:15-6:30pm at the Sibley Bike Depot, 712 University Avenue in St. Paul. Contact Kevin@sibleybikedepot.org with questions.
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Unsettling Ourselves: A Discussion Group Facilitated by Unsettling Minnesota
Join Unsettling Minnesota for Unsettling Ourselves: A Discussion Group
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Basic Bike Maintenance at Sibley Bike Depot (April) CLOSED
CLASS IS FULL - please register for the May class (May 16-June 6)
Learn the basics of fixing and maintaining your bicycle! Come learn bike repair skills with the knowledgeable staff and volunteers at Sibley Bike Depot, your friendly community bike shop in St. Paul.
April 18-May 9, four consecutive Sunday afternoons 4:15-6:30pm at the Sibley Bike Depot, 712 University Avenue in St. Paul. Contact Kevin@sibleybikedepot.org with questions.
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Basic Bike Maintenance at Sibley Bike Depot (April) (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
REGISTRATION CLOSED - please register for May's Basic Bike Maintenance class!
Learn the basics of fixing and maintaining your bicycle! Come learn bike repair skills with the knowledgeable staff and volunteers at Sibley Bike Depot, your friendly community bike shop in St. Paul.
April 18-May 9, four consecutive Sunday afternoons 4:15-6:30pm at the Sibley Bike Depot, 712 University Avenue in St. Paul. Contact Kevin@sibleybikedepot.org with questions.
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Complet Overhaul Bicycle Repair at the Sibley Bike Depot (March 2010)
This class will build upon the skills taught in the Basic Bike Maintenance class and expand through overhauling an entire bicycle. Participants will take apart, clean, and repack all bearing systems, including hubs, headsets, and bottom brackets. In addition, the will install new cables and housing on brakes and derailleurs as needed, and lubricate/adjust all shifting systems. In full, folks attending this class will learn how to perform a complete tune-up/overhaul of a bicycle. Participants will work with the same bike through the class, in order to see the complexities and intricacies of one specific bicycle. Note: All class participants will fix up SHOP BIKES during this class! Bikes fixed up will go into one of Sibley's many community programs designed to promote biking!
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Oneness Experiential
Let's explore the experience mind-body oneness! Our cultural conditioning
has created well-traveled pathways (i.e. habits) in our consciousness that
reflect a separation of "mind" from "body". Thus many of us have cultivated a
practice of treating our thinking mind and its habitual synaptic firings as
"self", while objectifying the body/physical experience. In other words,
thoughts/beliefs/opinions/memories are "me" and this thing that they live in
is "my body". (ever tried to "fix" yer body so it feels/appears a certain
way? or tried to "overcome" emotions? or heard yourself say something you
didn't mean?) There are countless ways we reinforce the habits of separation
in our day to day lives; however, there is plenty of space for building new
pathways.
The air we inhale is the exhale of plantlife; the air we exhale is its
inhale. The water we take in and release in this community is the Mississippi
River before and again after it quenches our thirst. The food we ingest grew
from the interactive regeneration of the earthbody: the sunlight and rain,
the decayed bones of our ancestors and the compost of our waste. Our presence
in life is part of a constant interdependent flow of natural living
wholeness. There is deep wisdom in the living body and there is vast
possibility available in allowing the mind to be present in this oneness.
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Collective Home Buying Workshop
This workshop comes out of the experience of collectively buying a house, a process that took two years, but finally resulted in an actual house last fall. We'll focus both on philosophical questions behind collective ownership and on the nuts and bolts of house-buying. Our collective still hasn't figured out how to make the house collectively owned on paper, but we will talk about the different options we are exploring.
The format of the workshop will be a skillshare where we will discuss the following questions. We've also created some resource lists to hand out. The class will be held at our house in South Minneapolis. Sign up for the class and check your email for directions.
- What sort of space are you trying to create?
What are collective members' shared values, and how do you ensure the collective stays true to these values (if that's something you want)? (Suggestions: Points of unity, bylaws, processes for entering and leaving the collective.)
- If your collective has a community focus, who is "the community"?
What's the difference between creating an intentional living community and being a community resource? Does your collective want to be accountable to a community? How do you achieve this? What are opportunities for neighborhood involvement? What are you feelings about gentrification?
- How to pay for it?
Mortgages, personal loans, contract-for-deed, co-signers, short-sales, special programs, land trusts.
- Who to ask for help?
Real estate agents, inspectors, lawyers, contractors, friends.
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Investigation into the process of investigation
Investigation into investigation
This class is inspired by the Roman orator Horace's command, Sapere aude!, or, in English, Dare to know!.
The intention of this course is to study the very simple question: How do we find the information that we want? This class will ignore the questions of what information we want, or why. Instead we will focus on methods of investigation and discovery, and the troubles and gad-flies of life that accompany it.
This class, more simply, will be a group led investigation into the process of investigation itself-- a meta-investigation. While I have some ideas on the topic, I most hope to share the written or composed works of others as source material, along with what we find, together, along the way.
We will be reading the works of the late social scientist, Robert K. Merton, whose contributions to the field of phisolophy and sociology of science, and the nature of investigation itself, I believe can inform us. In particular, we will be reading from two of his books: "On The Shoulders Of Giants" ( abbrieviated OTSOG ) and "The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity". This class may also involve reference to Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and also whomever we happen find along the way.
I would also like to involve in this course a study of music, poetry, and fiction, in order to amplify or discredit the ideas found in our investigations of investigation. It is my intention that this portion of the class be the most collaborative; I would hope that participants of the class would share their own favorite music, poetry, and fiction about the processes of investigation.
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DJ at WMCN 91.7FM
WMCN is looking for community DJs to broadcast alongside Macalester students! WMCN is a free-form, non-commercial, educational radio station serving Macalester College and its surrounding communities. Like many college radio stations, WMCN does not limit itself to any particular genre[s]. Our programming consists of a broad spectrum of music from indepedent record labels and artists, along with a spattering of talk, news, and announcements. Unlike most radio stations of any sort, however, WMCN is a truly freeform broadcast. We have unique weekly programs, each with its own host DJ[s] and theme. For more information about the station, see our website at www.macalester.edu/wmcn
If you would like to join our WMCN family, we encourage you to apply for a show explaining your idea, time availability, ect. Applications are due February 8th at 10PM. Once you have filled out the application, the staff here will do show selection and get back to you about your allotted time-slot. The "class" will consist of a training session over the weekend of February 13th and 14th. Finally, we will begin broadcasting the morning of February 15th. On a weekly basis, you will be responsible for your personal show preparation and the show itself, which you can run however you'd like (as long as it complies with the FCC, of course).
If you want to apply, and/or see what the application process entails, please follow the application link: here.
If you have any questions, please email me at zdotray@macalester.edu
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Hatha Flow Yoga
A class designed to explore the various dimensions of the practice of yoga and give you the skills to begin a personal home practice. Through physical poses, meditation techniques, and personal reflection, we will develop strength and flexibility of both body and mind. Come and tap into the flow of energy and grace in your life!
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5-String Banjos!
5-String Banjos! is for people interested in learning how to play the 5-string banjo. You can take this class if you've never touched a banjo or any other musical instrument before. You can take this class if you've played a little bit of banjo but want to learn more. This class is open to people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, and ability levels. Banjos are super fun and you can learn to play them!
If you are taking this course, it's important that you have access to a banjo. You don't need to own your own banjo, but you will need one to practice on and bring to classes. Ask friends, aunts and uncles, and friends' aunts and uncles if they have one you can borrow. There are a lot of unused and forgotten banjos in attics and basements.
This course will meet for eight weeks. We will learn:
- How to tune a banjo
- Playing chords
- Basic clawhammer (old time)
- Dropthumb and double thumb frailing
- Bluegrass rolls
- Playing "up the neck"
- Alternate tunings
- Scales and transposing
- The history of the banjo
- A whole bunch of songs!
We will be using the book The How and Tao of Old Time Banjo by Patrick Costello for parts of this course. You can find the text for free on the internet at: http://www.archive.org/
I look forward to facilitating this course! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions!
--Matthew Byrnes
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Clases de Musica y Dibujo Hip Hop
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Clases de Musica y Dibujo Hip Hop
Lugar: Cafeteria de la Escuela de la Ascension, 1723 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Sabados de 4:00 a 6:00 PM desde el 30 de Enero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Christian al 612-207-4901
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Zumba (N. Minneapolis)
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Clases de Zumba
Lugar: Cafeteria de la Escuela de la Ascension, 1723 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Sabados de 10:00 A 11:00 AM desde el 30 de Enero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Nancy al 612-227-3097
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Spanish Coversation
Location: Powderhorn Neighborhood Association, 821 E 35th St, Minneapolis.
Dates: Saturday 10am-12 noon, February 6th-March 27th
To register for the class or for more information contact Maria 612-669-1422
If you speak some Spanish, join us for the adventure of improving your skills in the second most spoken language in America. Culture, traditions and geography of Latin America and Spain, and mostly your opportunity to practice your Spanish.
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Clases de Gnosis
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Clases de Gnosis
Lugar: Corcoran Neighborhood 3451 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Viernes a las 6:00 PM desde el Viernes 5 de Febrero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Leonel al 646-303-0881
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Movimientos Sociales
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Clases de Movimientos Sociales
Lugar: Powderhorn Neighborhood Association, 821 E 35th Calle, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Sabados por la tarde desde el 6 de Febrero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Gabriel al 612-868-1970
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Primeros Auxilios
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Clases de Primeros Auxilios
Lugar: Waite House, 2529 13th Ave S, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Jueves de 6:00 A 7:00 PM desde el 4 de Febrero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Jovita al 612-721-1681
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Ritmos Latinos y Caribenos
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Lugar: Iglesia Santo Rosario, 2428 18th Ave S, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Domingos por la manana desde el 7 de Febrero
Para inscripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Leonel al 646-303-0881
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Yoga
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Lugar: Corcoran Park, 3334 20th Ave S, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Miercoles de 6:00 A 7:00pm desde el 3 de Marzo.
Para Insripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Jessica al 612-812-6282
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Zumba
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Lugar: Sabathani Community Center, 310 E 38th Calle, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Martes y Jueves de 11:30 A 12:30 PM desde el 26 de Enero
Para inscription, mayor infomacion o guarderia contactar a Nancy al 612-227-3097
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Clases de Aerobica
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Lugar:
Fechas: Todas los Jueves de 1:00 A 2:00 PM desde el 4 de Febrero
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
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Radical Feminisms
[[UPDATE: the class has already started, but you are welcome to join in at any time... Please see this blog for regular updates: http://excoradfeminisms.wordpress.com/ -- and email the facilitator at eli.meyerhoff@gmail.com if you'd like to join.]]
What is radical feminism today? How can we incorporate radical feminist practices in our activism and everyday lives?
This class will approach these questions through reading and discussing contemporary feminist texts (reading 20-50 pages per week), and talking about these ideas in relation to our experiences and situations. We will start with Nina Power's One Dimensional Woman, which critiques up-beat feminisms and offers a more anti-capitalist approach. Nina is a rad philosopher and the author of a cool blog: infinite th0ught. Here’s a blurb about the book:
